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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't think about it. Some people have turned it into a moral game, the modern version of the cardinal sins. My attitude towards anything with quasi-religious followings is to shrug and just get on with life. We are not extravagant but we live well. I have no intention of regressing into some sort of stone age lifestyle to make the ideological happy because I also know no matter what I do, it will also never be good enough.

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I don't think "quasi-religious" is a fair term. The desire to reduce CO2 emissions is based on science, not religion.

Emotions, feelings and morality come into the picture only because of the enormous risks that science has revealed with respect to rising concentrations of greenhouses gases.

The situation is not hopeless. The primary obstacle is that we, as individuals, feel small compared to the size of the problem, and we feel that our own actions are inconsequential. Yet aggregate CO2 emissions are nothing more than the sum of individual-level emissions (and the emissions tied to the products and services we consume). So our individual actions do matter. If increasing numbers of us make an effort to alter our behavior, it will indeed make a difference at the aggregate level.

I'm willing to make the effort for the sake of my children and grandchildren, and I believe that with each passing year the number of like-minded people will increase, until, I hope, aiming for a small CO2 footprint becomes part of mainstream culture.

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Well no.  It is not based on science.  Science would tell you this is a China/India problem.  [/quote]

About half of the USA's total carbon footprint is CO2 "embodied" in our imports. The root cause of the associated emissions is not the country manufacturing the goods, but the country consuming the goods. So when you assign blame to China, you are simultaneously assigning blame to us. Their manufacturing and our consumption are two sides of the same coin. If we were to alter our consumption here, it would have an impact on emissions there. 
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